Automating your Linux user management (local user and group) with Ansible enables you to achieve Infrastructure As Code (IaC). Using IaC you’re going to be able to automate your workflow, your CI/CD pipelines for example, and be faster about your critical business demands.

Beginners

Ansible provides various modules to manage user management (local user and group). I’ll show you step by step how to prepare your Ansible controller to interact with the Linux user and group directory. This initial configuration sometimes is a roadblock for some Docker users to start using Ansible.

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